Re:Valve Restricts Accounts of 2500 Users Who Marked a Negat...
by mehlmao on Saturday April 15, 2023 @01:33PM
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Off the top of my head, Genshin Impact is a mostly single-player game with some multiplayer functionality. It uses kernel level anti-cheat to make sure that microtransactions are protected. This driver had a known vulnerability that did not get patched for years and was used by malicious actors: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-abuse...
Street Fight 5 did the same thing; it was possible to unlock characters for local play using a trainer. They patched in a rootkit with known vulnerabilities in an attempt to prevent that.
Usually when micro-transactions are present everything is validated server side, Leading to always online games like diablo 3+.
From my understanding kernel level anticheat is to detect things like aimbot, wallhack etc.